FILM-NOLOGY & ELEMENTS

ELEMENTS OF CINEMA

• Emotional experience
• Entertainment
• Learn : Historic Events
• Story
• Perspective human condition, relation to characters
• Visually connect with characters

Is Cinema or film a text? (Elements)

• Storyline
• Setting
• Characters
• Sound
• Images 
• Lighting
• Shot type
• Props: colour scheme & Objects

The First Basic Rule 
Cinema is a visual art form. Cinema is not literature. A film is not a novel.

• However, a film is a text, ust as a play poem or novel is a text.
• Although the storyline is essential, when reading a film you must be able to examine, interpret and analyze the visual elements and style.